In this podcast, Dr. Reid discusses fluorescent screening for lung and head and neck cancers, ongoing cancer clinical trials in lung cancer prevention, and her involvement in an international registry of premalignant lesions of the lung.

Hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc. said Monday that its CHS/Community Health Systems Inc. subsidiary signed a deal to extend by two and a half years the maturity of $1.5 billion in credit.The new maturity date is now Jan. 25, 2017.The company said the maturity date of the rest of...

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Research carried out in Mali, West Africa, has demonstrated that a new, safe and uncomplicated insect control method, developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, can bring about a serious decline in malaria-bearing mosquitoes in afflicted...

(Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Scientists have found that the fat cells and tissues of morbidly obese people and animals can reach a limit in their ability to store fat appropriately. Beyond this limit several biological processes conspire to prevent...

(University of Southern Denmark) A research group led by Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark, have shown that the closest living relatives of the tetrapods, the lungfish, are insensitive to sound pressure, but sensitive to vibrations. The discovery was...

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Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Agilent Technologies Inc. have announced a partnership focused on developing tools to support the institute’s research.

PHILADELPHIA — Young mice that experienced the psychosocial stress of prolonged separation from their mothers had a higher incidence and faster onset of breast tumors compared with young mice who did not experience this stressful life event. Specifically, neonatal mice separated from...

PHILADELPHIA — Allopurinol, a relatively inexpensive anti-gout medication that has been on the market for more than 20 years, may have some activity against colorectal adenomas,
according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held...

PHILADELPHIA — The use of statins among a group of postmenopausal women did not reduce the risk for colorectal cancer, according to the results of a prospective analysis of data from the large population-based Women’s Health Initiative (WHI).

PHILADELPHIA — Gefitinib may be a promising chemoprevention agent for pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

(Indiana University) A study by an Indiana University health policy expert found that the state of Indiana spends less on substance abuse prevention initiatives than do surrounding states. It also spends much more on addressing the consequences of substance abuse than on prevention...

(Thomas Jefferson University) Thomas Jefferson University researchers have been awarded a W.W. Smith Charitable Trust medical research grant. This one-year grant awards $100,000 to help support their innovative cancer research, and one of the questions they will address is why...

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8, 2010 /- BioStorage Technologies, a global leader in sample management, cold chain logistics and biomaterial storage for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, today announced that the company has appointed Gregory Swanberg to serve as chief executive...